Waxahachie · TX · Dallas-Fort Worth · baseball
11U Flying Chanclas
A North Texas 11U team, 780 spinner pins — the longest design conversation in the baseball set.
780 pins2.0"
Project records
Real orders, documented from the thread up
Real completed trading-pin orders: what was asked for, how many proof rounds it took, what it shipped as, and what we learned. No invented testimonials, no guessed specifications.
76 of 76 records
Killbuck · NY · Western New York · baseball
Aces 12U
A parent who thought the team's Cooperstown pins weren't good enough — so they had one made for their own kid instead.
100 pins2.0"
Elkins Park · PA · Philadelphia · 12U · baseball
Anderson Monarchs
Two orders, two years apart, and only one jersey number in common — the roster turned over almost entirely and the account stayed.
Verbatim quote
Burke · VA · Northern Virginia · baseball
Annandale North Springfield Little League (ANSLL)
Four orders, three years, and two different people doing the buying — a little league account that outlived the person who opened it.
CA · baseball
Antelope Valley Coyotes
The same club came back and ordered fifty percent more.
1,600 pins2.0"Banner includedVerbatim quote
Antelope Valley · CA · baseball
Antelope Valley Coyotes
A club that wanted one pin every age group could use — and got the clearest demonstration in the archive of why the bigger pin costs less.
1,000 pins2.0"
Senoia · GA · Metro Atlanta · softball
AP Pope 12U
The customer named their event on the quote form before anyone picked up the phone: Softball World Series.
2.0"
Apple Valley · MN · Twin Cities metro · baseball
Apple Valley Baseball
A thousand spinner pins with a banner and glitter — and a last-minute artwork change because a player left the program before Cooperstown.
1,000 pins2.25"Banner included
Winchester · CA · Inland Empire · baseball
Arsenal Elite
Two sizes quoted side by side at 400 slider pins — 2.25 inch against 3 inch — with a glitter finish.
400 pins
· baseball
Athletes HQ
Six pin designs, two of them on dangles, plus a six-foot banner — and a quantity mix-up caught after the order had already reached the factory.
Banner includedVerbatim quote
Whitesburg · GA · Metro Atlanta · softball
Atlanta Premier
A softball team heading to their World Series asked to see their pin with the softball taken off it.
200 pins2.25"
PA · baseball
Avon Grove Bombers
A customer who did his own arithmetic, twice — and got a straight answer both times.
670 pins2.0"Verbatim quote
Scottsdale · AZ · Phoenix metro · softball
AZ Sting
An inquiry at 4:48pm, a paid invoice the same night, and approved artwork by nine the next morning — because the team travelled in three weeks.
300 pins1.5"Verbatim quote
CA · baseball
Bay Area Pro
They needed 180 pins. They ordered 300, and paid less per pin than the 180 would have cost.
300 pins2.0"Verbatim quote
Hanover · MA · South Shore · club · hockey
Bay State Breakers
A returning customer who couldn't name the style he wanted, whose final design was reverse-engineered from a decade-old pin someone dug out of a drawer at the rink.
300 pins3.0"Verbatim quote
Long Beach · CA · baseball
Beach City Cyclones
A VW camper van and a Snoop Dogg portrait, from a Long Beach team going to Cooperstown.
1,540 pins2.25" / 3.0"Banner includedVerbatim quote
El Segundo · CA · South Bay, Los Angeles · baseball
Beach City Prospects
Fourteen hundred pins for Cooperstown, and a dollar a pin riding on half an inch.
1,400 pins2.0"Verbatim quote
Satellite Beach · FL · Space Coast · softball
Beachside Sirens
Six hundred two-and-a-half inch pins, and the only thing holding the order up was whether they should have glitter.
600 pins2.5"Verbatim quote
Beaver Valley · PA · baseball
Beaver Valley Black
A parent who kept asking whether her own taste was the right taste - and designed a better pin because of it.
875 pins2.0" / 2.5" / 3.0"Verbatim quote
Beaver Valley · PA · baseball
Beaver Valley Red
The order where a quoting error was corrected out loud rather than quietly absorbed.
1,160 pins2.0" / 2.5" / 3.0"Banner includedVerbatim quote
Beaver Valley · PA · baseball
Beaver Valley White
Two sibling teams, one week at Cooperstown, and a pin designed in two halves so the teams could complete each other's.
1,050 pins3.0"Verbatim quote
San Lorenzo · CA · East Bay · corporate
Bikerdahan
A returning customer who draws his own pin and sends it in for execution — two years running.
100 pins1.5"Verbatim quote
· baseball
Birmingham Giants
Two hundred pins is a small order. Dropping half an inch made it a third cheaper.
200 pins1.5"Verbatim quote
· baseball
Bobcat Baseball Club
Sixty rare pins against nine hundred and forty standard — and a customer who changed his mind about player numbers, in the right direction.
1,100 pins2.0" / 3.0"Verbatim quote
Chicago · IL · baseball
Bombers BB Windy City
Offset printed, not enamel filled — and the reason is in the artwork.
500 pins2.0"
Baxter · MN · Brainerd Lakes · association · hockey
Brainerd Amateur Hockey Association
An entire association covered by one order — 1,500 pins on a single invoice, with a rush that TPC had to chase the factory to protect.
1,500 pins2.0"Banner includedVerbatim quote
Brampton · baseball
Brampton Challengers
A hundred pins, individually wrapped, with packing instructions written into the order.
100 pins1.5"Verbatim quote
GA · baseball
Buford Wolves
A first-time buyer working out how many pins a ten-player team needs.
110 pins2.0"Verbatim quote
GA · baseball
Buford Wolves
One team in 2024. Three teams in 2025.
2.0"Verbatim quote
Berwyn · PA · baseball
Bulldogs BB PA
Nine hundred standard, a hundred and twenty rare, a hundred gold — scarcity designed on purpose.
1,120 pins2.0"Banner includedVerbatim quote
CA · baseball
CA Diamond Kings
Most orders make the spinner the rare pin. This one put it on the majority.
1,100 pins2.0"Banner includedVerbatim quote
CA · baseball
Cali BB
A $75 rush charge, a glow-in-the-dark rate, and a warning about the parts of a die-cut pin that snap off.
100 pins1.5"Verbatim quote
CA · baseball
Cali Dream
"We just want to make sure our parents can afford them."
800 pins1.5"Verbatim quote
Pennsville · NJ · South Jersey · hockey
Campus Wild 12AA
A South Jersey 12AA team on a hard January deadline — routed by freight forward specifically to avoid the tariff.
375 pins1.75"
NC · baseball
Carolina Bulls
275 pins, approved on the first proof — and two years later the same club came back for eleven hundred.
275 pins2.0"
NC · baseball
Carolina Bulls
"We have used your company before a few years ago."
1,100 pins1.5"Verbatim quote
FL · baseball
Central Florida Suns
"Most team trading pins want 1.75 inch to 2 inch."
500 pins1.75"Verbatim quote
Chaska · MN · hockey
Chaska Chanhassen Hockey Association (CCHA)
Three teams from one Minnesota association, three separate orders, two different families — and a puzzle-piece pin set that had to be re-engineered so it would survive production.
Rockledge · FL · Space Coast · corporate
City of Rockledge
Fifteen hundred pins for a Florida city — the largest corporate run in the collection, and the lowest price per pin anywhere in it.
1,500 pins1.5"
Cleveland · MS · Mississippi Delta · softball
Cleveland All-Stars
A Mississippi softball team heading to the Dizzy Dean World Series — and the cheapest per-pin price in the whole library.
2.0"Verbatim quote
· baseball
Colonial Heights Rebels 10U
Nine jersey numbers on a 1.75 inch pin, and a parent asking if they could buy extras.
165 pins1.75"Verbatim quote
Westerville · OH · Columbus metro · hockey
Columbus Mavericks
A 1.5-inch order — below the 2-inch trading floor TPC normally recommends — and the smallest pin in the sample.
400 pins1.5"
· baseball
Concord Athletics
A thousand pins, a hundred blackout, and a second mould that cost nothing.
1,100 pins2.0"Verbatim quote
8U · softball
Corona Avengers / KAT 8U
Six prices on the table at once — two sizes across three quantities — and an 8U team picked the middle of the ladder.
400 pins2.5"
Corryton · TN · East Tennessee · corporate
Corryton Community Club
A community club in East Tennessee ordered 224 spinner pins for an event called The Possum Chase.
224 pins1.5"
CT · baseball
CT Crushers
Two red blinking lights, set into a gold pin — the only lit pins in the library.
1,250 pins2.5" / 2.0"Verbatim quote
CT · baseball
CT Crushers
Two thousand five hundred pins — the largest order here, and a third of them upgraded.
2,500 pins2.0"
CT · baseball
CT Crushers
A pin that only makes sense when someone else has the other half.
500 pins3.0"Verbatim quote
· hockey
CYHA Thunder
The customer set a budget in her first message, and the glitter came off the pin to keep it.
330 pins2.0"Verbatim quote
Mahopac · NY · Hudson Valley · hockey
Danbury Hat Tricks
A customer who arrived with finished artwork and declined every suggestion to improve it.
200 pins1.5"Verbatim quote
Burnsville · MN · Twin Cities metro · corporate
Dayforce
An executive assistant asked if we had 400 pins in stock. We do not stock pins — but she already had the artwork, so there was nothing to design.
400 pins1.25"Verbatim quote
Needham · MA · Greater Boston · hockey
East Coast Wizards 14U Elite
A hockey team heading to Lake Placid wanted the town's name on the pin — and said so on the first design round, which is why the artwork went through four versions in six days.
165 pins1.5"
Portland · OR · soccer
Foothills Soccer Club
She asked for 75 of them to say ‘league champs’. The answer was a second mould — and she decided against it herself.
200 pins1.25"Verbatim quote
San Diego · CA · baseball
Free Agents 11U
The artwork decided the size, not the budget.
500 pins2.0"Verbatim quote
Blue Bell · PA · hockey
Genesis Hockey Club
Seventeen player numbers, seventeen variations, one order.
2.0"Verbatim quote
NJ · corporate
Gloucester County Hero Scholarship Fund
A twenty-fifth anniversary that had to be marked without taking over the pin.
550 pins2.0"Verbatim quote
Franklinville · NJ · corporate
Gloucester County Hero Scholarship Fund
A memorial ride that has ordered its pin from the same shop every year on record — and reached its twenty-fifth anniversary in 2026.
550 pins2.0"
MN · hockey
Hopkins Royals Squirt
"If you could do them at $2.05, I'd go with that. Otherwise, let's do the 2-inch."
600 pins2.25"Verbatim quote
· hockey
Hutchinson Squirt B1
A squirt-level team that asked for a range and ordered at the bottom of it.
150 pins1.5"
Hutchinson · MN · hockey
Hutchinson Tigers Girls Hockey
Two girls' teams, two designs, one purchase order — and a better rate than either would have got alone.
289 pins2.0"Verbatim quote
Massena · NY · hockey
Icemen Hockey
The supplier talked them into the more expensive size, for a reason that had nothing to do with money.
200 pins1.5"Verbatim quote
MN · hockey
IGH/SSP Hockey Association
A Minnesota hockey association that wanted its state on the pin.
250 pins2.0"
Miami · FL · corporate
Inca Digital
A corporate order where the delivery address changed after the pins were already in production.
500 pins
NJ · hockey
Jersey Shore Wildcats
Fifty pins to a hundred took the price from $5.50 to $3.50 — the steepest break in the library.
100 pins2.25"Verbatim quote
Keene · NH · figure-skating
Keene Figure Skating Club
The hockey club sent them. The skating board chose the glitter.
150 pins1.5"Verbatim quote
Keene · NH · hockey
Keene Youth Hockey Club
A thousand pins at seventy-nine cents — the cheapest pin in the library, and a club board signed it off.
1,000 pins1.0"Verbatim quote
La Mirada · CA · baseball
La Mirada Dirtbags
"Not Cooperstown but World Series event" — and the quantity split across two age groups.
300 pins2.5"Verbatim quote
· hockey
Lakeland Hawks
"Is it possible to order an off number of 320 pins?" Yes — and the reason the deadline was tight had nothing to do with the team.
320 pins1.75"Verbatim quote
DeWitt · MI · hockey
Lansing Spartans
The size ladder is not a straight line — and a wrong-size artwork was caught before the mould was cut.
150 pins1.5"Verbatim quote
Marblehead · MA · hockey
Marblehead Youth Hockey
Specified at 250, ordered at 350 — the right way round.
350 pins2.0"Verbatim quote
Pasadena · MD · hockey
Maryland Junior Black Bears
Fewer, bigger — 125 pins at two and a quarter inches.
125 pins2.25"Verbatim quote
Massena · NY · hockey
Massena Minor Girls Hockey
Fifty pins cost $4.45 each. A hundred cost $2.78. The pins did not change.
100 pins1.5"Verbatim quote
Minneapolis · MN · hockey
Minneapolis Storm B2
The cherry spins. It is the Spoonbridge, and it is the best-argued spinner in the library.
200 pins1.75"Verbatim quote
Philadelphia · PA · Delaware Valley · 13U AA · hockey
Philadelphia Blazers
The team that let its 13-year-olds vote on the final artwork — and turned down a spinner upgrade to put every player's number on the pin instead.
250 pins2.5"
West St. Paul · MN · hockey
West St. Paul Hockey
A team that asked for a scoreboard on their pin, changed their minds several times, and apologised for it — unnecessarily.
2.0"Verbatim quote
· hockey
Westchester Express
Seventy-five pins at three inches, headed for Ottawa — and the happiest customer in the archive.
75 pins3.0"Verbatim quote